The goal of this project was to successfully run Fedora 12 on the SheevaPlug. The operating system that came loaded on the device is Debian. The purpose behind installing Fedora 12 on this device is to test the operating system's performance on the ARM architecture. Further tests will be performed in the future to determine if the SheevaPlug is a good choice for the Fedora Arm Secondary Architecture Project to use a stack of these devices as builders.

1. 512MB NAND is too small to install a regular installation of Fedora 12 on (The plug has no disk).

2. The plug does not have a BIOS, instead it has a bootloader (U-boot) however this needed to be updated. 3. No video card. 4. Some network configuration had to be made when plugged into my network. This network configuration was required in order to download "wget".

2. The bootloader was easily upgradable by accessing the newer version via TFTP or USB from a web source (http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/uboot-upgrade.html) 3. Since there is no BIOS to select which device gets booted, the SheevaPlug has doesn't have a display adapter, it comes integrated with a built in "serial console to mini USB" connection. The connection can be made to either a bootloader called U-bootWindows or Linux machine. HoweverFor the purpose of this project, U-boot needed I connected it to be upgraded a Windows machine.  4. The default gateway had was configured and configured for the SD card name server was added to be selected during the boot up processresolv.conf file.

1. Fedora 12 was successfully installed on an SD card and booted from the SheevaPlug. The boot up time was quick as well, with minimal extra configuration required once booted it up (i.e. networking). 2. Following the HOW-TO page for upgrading U-boot (located in the Links section) was pretty simple, however making sure the uboot.bin file copies over to the USB drive is important for the device to actually read it and copy it over. To configure U-boot, about 7 configuration commands were required, as soon as this was done and the device rebooted, the device selected the SD card and booted Fedora 12. 3. Once I connected the SheevaPlug with the "mini USB to regular USB" cable, I installed the Windows drivers that came with the CD and using PuTTy I used a serial connection to COM 1 using 115200 as the connection speed in order to connect to the device.

24. Following Configuring the HOW-TO page for upgrading U-boot was pretty simple, however making sure name server enabled the uboot.bin file copies over connection to the USB drive is important for the device Internet and I was able to use apt-get to actually read it and copy it overinstall "wget". To configure U-boot, about 7 configuration commands were Wget was required, as soon as this was done to download the Distro and the device rebooted, the device selected Kernel for when I had to install Fedora 12 on the SD card and booted Fedora 12.